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Reporting an Incident Politely and Clearly

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Reporting an Incident
Learn how to clearly describe what happened, when, and to whom โ€” in Korean.
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Iru Helper Note
Whether it's a lost item, a minor accident, or an unexpected event, being able to report what happened in Korean clearly and calmly is an essential real-world skill.
์•„๊นŒ ์ง€ํ•˜์ฒ ์—์„œ ๊ฐ€๋ฐฉ์„ ์žƒ์–ด๋ฒ„๋ ธ์–ด์š”.
(I lost my bag on the subway a little while ago.)
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๐Ÿšจ What You'll Learn Today

Incidents happen โ€” a lost item, a fender bender, a suspicious situation, or a medical emergency. Knowing how to describe what happened, give relevant details, and communicate urgency in Korean can make a real difference in critical moments. This lesson gives you the vocabulary and structure for clearly reporting incidents in everyday Korean contexts.

๐Ÿ“Œ Incident Reporting Expressions

Expression
Meaning
Notes
~์„/๋ฅผ ์žƒ์–ด๋ฒ„๋ ธ์–ด์š”
I lost ~
Most common lost-item report
~์ด/๊ฐ€ ์—†์–ด์กŒ์–ด์š”
~ has disappeared / gone missing
Signals something is missing
~์—์„œ ~ ์žˆ์—ˆ์–ด์š”
~ happened at ~
Basic location + event frame
์‹ ๊ณ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹ถ์–ด์š”
I want to report [something]
Used at police/lost & found
๋„์›€์ด ํ•„์š”ํ•ด์š”
I need help
Universal emergency opener
๋ฐฉ๊ธˆ
Just now / a moment ago
Signals immediate recency
์•„๊นŒ
A little while ago
Slightly more time has passed
~ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ๋ดค์–ด์š”
I saw ~ happening
Witnessed event
๋‹ค์นœ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์ด ์žˆ์–ด์š”
Someone is hurt
Medical emergency signal
์—ฐ๋ฝ์ฒ˜๋ฅผ ์•Œ๋ ค์ฃผ์„ธ์š”
Please give me your contact information
Post-incident info exchange
์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ํ•ด์•ผ ํ•ด์š”?
What should I do?
Seeking guidance in unclear situations
ํ™•์ธํ•ด ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”
Please check / verify
Requesting official follow-up
๊ฒฝ์ฐฐ์— ์‹ ๊ณ ํ•ด์•ผ ํ•ด์š”
I need to report to the police
Escalation signal
์ œ ๋ฌผ๊ฑด์ด ์—†์–ด์กŒ์–ด์š”
My belongings are gone
Theft or loss report opener
๐Ÿ’ก Key pattern: ์•„๊นŒ/๋ฐฉ๊ธˆ + [location] + ์—์„œ + [what happened] + ~์–ด/์•˜์–ด์š” is the core incident report structure. "์•„๊นŒ ํŽธ์˜์ ์—์„œ ์ง€๊ฐ‘์„ ์žƒ์–ด๋ฒ„๋ ธ์–ด์š”." (I lost my wallet at the convenience store a little while ago.) Add ์‹ ๊ณ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹ถ์–ด์š” or ๋„์›€์ด ํ•„์š”ํ•ด์š” to signal you need official help.

๐Ÿ’ฌ Conversations in Action

Dialogue 1 โ€” Lost Item at a Station
A: ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ๋„์™€๋“œ๋ฆด๊นŒ์š”? (How can I help you?)
B: ์•„๊นŒ ์ด ์—ญ์—์„œ ๊ฐ€๋ฐฉ์„ ์žƒ์–ด๋ฒ„๋ ธ์–ด์š”. ์‹ ๊ณ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹ถ์–ด์š”. (A little while ago I lost my bag at this station. I want to report it.)
A: ์–ธ์ œ, ์–ด๋””์—์„œ ์žƒ์–ด๋ฒ„๋ฆฌ์…จ์–ด์š”? (When and where did you lose it?)
B: ๋ฐฉ๊ธˆ 3๋ฒˆ ์ถœ๊ตฌ ์ชฝ์—์„œ์š”. ๊ฒ€์€์ƒ‰ ๋ฐฑํŒฉ์ด์—์š”. ํ™•์ธํ•ด ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”. (Just now, near Exit 3. It's a black backpack. Please check.)
Dialogue 2 โ€” Witnessing an Accident
A: ์ €๊ธฐ์š”, ๋„์›€์ด ํ•„์š”ํ•ด์š”. (Excuse me, I need help.)
B: ๋ฌด์Šจ ์ผ์ด์—์š”? (What happened?)
A: ๋ฐฉ๊ธˆ ๋ฐ–์—์„œ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์ด ๋„˜์–ด์ง€๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ๋ดค์–ด์š”. ๋‹ค์นœ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์ด ์žˆ์–ด์š”. (Just now outside, I saw someone fall. Someone is hurt.)
B: ์•Œ๊ฒ ์–ด์š”. ๊ฒฝ์ฐฐ์— ์‹ ๊ณ ํ•ด์•ผ ํ•ด์š”. ์ œ๊ฐ€ ํ• ๊ฒŒ์š”. (I understand. We need to report to the police. I'll do it.)

๐ŸŒ Cultural Note โ€” How to Report in Korea

In Korea, for non-emergency situations, you can go to the ๋ถ„์‹ค๋ฌผ ์„ผํ„ฐ (lost and found center) at subway stations, malls, and airports. For police matters, dial 112 (police) or 119 (fire/ambulance). When reporting in person, using ์‹ ๊ณ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹ถ์–ด์š” or ๋ถ„์‹ค๋ฌผ ์‹ ๊ณ  ํ•˜๋Ÿฌ ์™”์–ด์š” ("I came to report a lost item") immediately communicates your purpose. Koreans generally respond well to calm, clear reporting โ€” the key is giving the time, location, and description in sequence.

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Practice reporting incidents clearly in Korean.
A. Report that you lost your wallet a little while ago.
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์•„๊นŒ ์ง€๊ฐ‘์„ ์žƒ์–ด๋ฒ„๋ ธ์–ด์š”. ์‹ ๊ณ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹ถ์–ด์š”. (A little while ago, I lost my wallet. I want to report it.)
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B. Say you just saw something suspicious happen.
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๋ฐฉ๊ธˆ ์ €๊ธฐ์—์„œ ์ด์ƒํ•œ ์ผ์ด ์žˆ์—ˆ์–ด์š”. (Just now, something strange happened over there.)
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C. Report that someone is hurt and needs help.
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๋‹ค์นœ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์ด ์žˆ์–ด์š”. ๋„์›€์ด ํ•„์š”ํ•ด์š”. (Someone is hurt. Help is needed.)
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D. Describe that your belongings have gone missing on the subway.
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์•„๊นŒ ์ง€ํ•˜์ฒ ์—์„œ ์ œ ๋ฌผ๊ฑด์ด ์—†์–ด์กŒ์–ด์š”. (A little while ago, my belongings went missing on the subway.)
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E. Ask what you should do after losing something.
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๊ฐ€๋ฐฉ์„ ์žƒ์–ด๋ฒ„๋ ธ๋Š”๋ฐ, ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ํ•ด์•ผ ํ•ด์š”? (I lost my bag โ€” what should I do?)
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F. Report witnessing an accident.
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๋ฐฉ๊ธˆ ์‚ฌ๊ณ ๊ฐ€ ๋‚˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ๋ดค์–ด์š”. ๋ˆ„๊ตฐ๊ฐ€ ๋„์™€์ค˜์•ผ ํ•ด์š”. (Just now, I saw an accident happen. Someone needs to help.)
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G. Say you need to report something to the police.
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๊ฒฝ์ฐฐ์— ์‹ ๊ณ ํ•ด์•ผ ํ•ด์š”. ์ง€๊ธˆ ์—ฐ๋ฝํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์–ด์š”? (I need to report this to the police. Can I contact them now?)
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H. Ask someone to verify your report and check.
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์ œ ๊ฐ€๋ฐฉ์ด ์—†์–ด์กŒ์–ด์š”. ํ™•์ธํ•ด ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”. (My bag is gone. Please check.)
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I. Request the contact information of someone involved.
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์—ฐ๋ฝ์ฒ˜๋ฅผ ์•Œ๋ ค์ฃผ์„ธ์š”. ๋‚˜์ค‘์— ์—ฐ๋ฝ์ด ํ•„์š”ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์–ด์š”. (Please give me your contact information. I may need to be in touch later.)
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J. Describe the location where the incident happened.
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3๋ฒˆ ์ถœ๊ตฌ ์•ž์—์„œ ์žˆ์—ˆ๋˜ ์ผ์ด์—์š”. ๋ฐฉ๊ธˆ ์ผ์–ด๋‚ฌ์–ด์š”. (It happened in front of Exit 3. It just occurred.)
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Expression Reference
Expression
Use
~์„/๋ฅผ ์žƒ์–ด๋ฒ„๋ ธ์–ด์š”
Report lost item
~์ด/๊ฐ€ ์—†์–ด์กŒ์–ด์š”
Report something missing
์‹ ๊ณ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹ถ์–ด์š”
Request to file a report
๋„์›€์ด ํ•„์š”ํ•ด์š”
Universal help signal
๋ฐฉ๊ธˆ
Just now
์•„๊นŒ
A little while ago
๋‹ค์นœ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์ด ์žˆ์–ด์š”
Someone is hurt
์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ํ•ด์•ผ ํ•ด์š”?
What should I do?
ํ™•์ธํ•ด ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”
Please check/verify
๊ฒฝ์ฐฐ์— ์‹ ๊ณ ํ•ด์•ผ ํ•ด์š”
Need to report to police
์—ฐ๋ฝ์ฒ˜๋ฅผ ์•Œ๋ ค์ฃผ์„ธ์š”
Give me your contact info
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Tip: Time โ†’ Location โ†’ Event
When reporting in Korean, give information in this order: (1) when (๋ฐฉ๊ธˆ/์•„๊นŒ), (2) where (~์—์„œ), (3) what happened (~์—ˆ์–ด์š”). This structure is instinctively clear to Korean listeners and mirrors how official reports are taken. Practice: ์•„๊นŒ + [place] + ์—์„œ + [incident] + ์—ˆ์–ด์š”.
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Want more reps?
Practice a 4-sentence incident report using this structure: (1) ์•„๊นŒ/๋ฐฉ๊ธˆ + location + ์—์„œ [what happened]. (2) [What is missing or who is affected]. (3) ์‹ ๊ณ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹ถ์–ด์š” or ๋„์›€์ด ํ•„์š”ํ•ด์š”. (4) ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ํ•ด์•ผ ํ•ด์š”? / ํ™•์ธํ•ด ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”. Repeat with different scenarios until the structure is automatic.
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๐Ÿ“ฆ Practice Hub โ€” Reporting an Incident


Exercise 1 โ€” Choose the Right Expression

Choose the best expression for each situation.
A. You lost your phone and want to report it.
1) ๋‹ค์นœ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์ด ์žˆ์–ด์š” 2) ํ•ธ๋“œํฐ์„ ์žƒ์–ด๋ฒ„๋ ธ์–ด์š” 3) ๊ฒฝ์ฐฐ์— ์‹ ๊ณ ํ•ด์•ผ ํ•ด์š” 4) ์—ฐ๋ฝ์ฒ˜๋ฅผ ์•Œ๋ ค์ฃผ์„ธ์š”
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2) ํ•ธ๋“œํฐ์„ ์žƒ์–ด๋ฒ„๋ ธ์–ด์š” โ€” "I lost my phone."
B. You want to signal that you need to file an official report.
1) ๋ฐฉ๊ธˆ 2) ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ํ•ด์•ผ ํ•ด์š”? 3) ์‹ ๊ณ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹ถ์–ด์š” 4) ํ™•์ธํ•ด ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”
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3) ์‹ ๊ณ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹ถ์–ด์š” โ€” "I want to report [something]."
C. You need help urgently and want to signal it immediately.
1) ์•„๊นŒ 2) ๋„์›€์ด ํ•„์š”ํ•ด์š” 3) ์—ฐ๋ฝ์ฒ˜๋ฅผ ์•Œ๋ ค์ฃผ์„ธ์š” 4) ์‹ ๊ณ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹ถ์–ด์š”
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2) ๋„์›€์ด ํ•„์š”ํ•ด์š” โ€” universal urgent help signal.
D. Something disappeared very recently, just moments ago.
1) ์•„๊นŒ 2) ๋ฐฉ๊ธˆ 3) ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ํ•ด์•ผ ํ•ด์š”? 4) ~์ด/๊ฐ€ ์—†์–ด์กŒ์–ด์š”
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2) ๋ฐฉ๊ธˆ โ€” "just now."
E. You want to tell someone that someone else is injured.
1) ์ œ ๋ฌผ๊ฑด์ด ์—†์–ด์กŒ์–ด์š” 2) ๋ฐฉ๊ธˆ 3) ๋‹ค์นœ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์ด ์žˆ์–ด์š” 4) ํ™•์ธํ•ด ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”
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3) ๋‹ค์นœ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์ด ์žˆ์–ด์š” โ€” "someone is hurt."
F. You're unsure what step to take and need guidance.
1) ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ํ•ด์•ผ ํ•ด์š”? 2) ์‹ ๊ณ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹ถ์–ด์š” 3) ๊ฒฝ์ฐฐ์— ์‹ ๊ณ ํ•ด์•ผ ํ•ด์š” 4) ๋ฐฉ๊ธˆ
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1) ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ํ•ด์•ผ ํ•ด์š”? โ€” "what should I do?"
G. You want an official to check whether your report was recorded.
1) ๋„์›€์ด ํ•„์š”ํ•ด์š” 2) ์•„๊นŒ 3) ์—ฐ๋ฝ์ฒ˜๋ฅผ ์•Œ๋ ค์ฃผ์„ธ์š” 4) ํ™•์ธํ•ด ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”
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4) ํ™•์ธํ•ด ์ฃผ์„ธ์š” โ€” "please check / verify."
H. You need to escalate the situation to the police.
1) ์‹ ๊ณ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹ถ์–ด์š” 2) ๊ฒฝ์ฐฐ์— ์‹ ๊ณ ํ•ด์•ผ ํ•ด์š” 3) ๋ฐฉ๊ธˆ 4) ๋„์›€์ด ํ•„์š”ํ•ด์š”
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2) ๊ฒฝ์ฐฐ์— ์‹ ๊ณ ํ•ด์•ผ ํ•ด์š” โ€” "I need to report this to the police."
I. You want to get contact details from another party involved.
1) ์—ฐ๋ฝ์ฒ˜๋ฅผ ์•Œ๋ ค์ฃผ์„ธ์š” 2) ํ™•์ธํ•ด ์ฃผ์„ธ์š” 3) ๋„์›€์ด ํ•„์š”ํ•ด์š” 4) ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ํ•ด์•ผ ํ•ด์š”?
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1) ์—ฐ๋ฝ์ฒ˜๋ฅผ ์•Œ๋ ค์ฃผ์„ธ์š” โ€” "please give me your contact information."
J. Something was in your possession but is now gone.
1) ์•„๊นŒ 2) ์‹ ๊ณ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹ถ์–ด์š” 3) ์ œ ๋ฌผ๊ฑด์ด ์—†์–ด์กŒ์–ด์š” 4) ๋ฐฉ๊ธˆ
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3) ์ œ ๋ฌผ๊ฑด์ด ์—†์–ด์กŒ์–ด์š” โ€” "my belongings are gone."
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Quick Reference
Expression
Use
~์„/๋ฅผ ์žƒ์–ด๋ฒ„๋ ธ์–ด์š”
Lost item report
~์ด/๊ฐ€ ์—†์–ด์กŒ์–ด์š”
Something missing
์‹ ๊ณ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹ถ์–ด์š”
File a report
๋„์›€์ด ํ•„์š”ํ•ด์š”
Need help urgently
๋ฐฉ๊ธˆ
Just now
์•„๊นŒ
A little while ago
๋‹ค์นœ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์ด ์žˆ์–ด์š”
Someone is hurt
์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ํ•ด์•ผ ํ•ด์š”?
What should I do?
ํ™•์ธํ•ด ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”
Please check
๊ฒฝ์ฐฐ์— ์‹ ๊ณ ํ•ด์•ผ ํ•ด์š”
Report to police
์—ฐ๋ฝ์ฒ˜๋ฅผ ์•Œ๋ ค์ฃผ์„ธ์š”
Get contact info
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Pitfall: Vague Timing
Saying something happened without a time reference (๋ฐฉ๊ธˆ/์•„๊นŒ) can make your report harder to follow. Always include a time marker โ€” it immediately helps the listener understand urgency and whether the incident is recent or resolved.

Exercise 2 โ€” Korean โ†’ English Translation

Translate each sentence naturally into English.
A. ์•„๊นŒ ๋ฒ„์Šค์—์„œ ์ง€๊ฐ‘์„ ์žƒ์–ด๋ฒ„๋ ธ์–ด์š”.
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A little while ago, I lost my wallet on the bus.
B. ๋ฐฉ๊ธˆ 3๋ฒˆ ์ถœ๊ตฌ ์•ž์—์„œ ๊ฐ€๋ฐฉ์ด ์—†์–ด์กŒ์–ด์š”.
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Just now, my bag disappeared in front of Exit 3.
C. ์‹ ๊ณ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹ถ์–ด์š”. ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ํ•ด์•ผ ํ•ด์š”?
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I want to file a report. What should I do?
D. ๋„์›€์ด ํ•„์š”ํ•ด์š”. ๋‹ค์นœ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์ด ์žˆ์–ด์š”.
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I need help. Someone is hurt.
E. ๋ฐฉ๊ธˆ ์‚ฌ๊ณ ๊ฐ€ ๋‚˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ๋ดค์–ด์š”.
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Just now, I saw an accident happen.
F. ๊ฒฝ์ฐฐ์— ์‹ ๊ณ ํ•ด์•ผ ํ•ด์š”. ์ง€๊ธˆ ์—ฐ๋ฝํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์–ด์š”?
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I need to report this to the police. Can I contact them now?
G. ์ œ ๋ฌผ๊ฑด์ด ์—†์–ด์กŒ์–ด์š”. ํ™•์ธํ•ด ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”.
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My belongings are gone. Please check.
H. ์—ฐ๋ฝ์ฒ˜๋ฅผ ์•Œ๋ ค์ฃผ์„ธ์š”. ๋‚˜์ค‘์— ํ•„์š”ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์–ด์š”.
<summary>Answer
Please give me your contact information. I may need it later.
I. ์•„๊นŒ ์ง€ํ•˜์ฒ  ์•ˆ์—์„œ ์žˆ์—ˆ๋˜ ์ผ์ด์—์š”.
<summary>Answer
It's something that happened on the subway a little while ago.
J. ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ํ•ด์•ผ ํ•ด์š”? ๋ถ„์‹ค๋ฌผ ์„ผํ„ฐ๊ฐ€ ์–ด๋””์— ์žˆ์–ด์š”?
<summary>Answer
What should I do? Where is the lost and found center?
๐Ÿ“š
Vocabulary Cheat Sheet
Word
Meaning
์žƒ์–ด๋ฒ„๋ฆฌ๋‹ค
to lose (an item)
์—†์–ด์ง€๋‹ค
to disappear / go missing
์‹ ๊ณ 
report / filing
๋ถ„์‹ค๋ฌผ ์„ผํ„ฐ
lost and found center
์‚ฌ๊ณ 
accident
์—ฐ๋ฝ์ฒ˜
contact information
์ถœ๊ตฌ
exit
๋‹ค์น˜๋‹ค
to be hurt / injured
๐Ÿ’ก
Grammar Tip: ~๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ๋ดค์–ด์š”
๋ฐฉ๊ธˆ ์‚ฌ๊ณ ๊ฐ€ ๋‚˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ๋ดค์–ด์š” uses the structure [verb stem + ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ๋ณด๋‹ค] = "to see something happening." This is the standard way to say you witnessed an event: ๋ˆ„๊ตฐ๊ฐ€ ๋›ฐ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ๋ดค์–ด์š” (I saw someone running), ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์ด ๋„˜์–ด์ง€๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ๋ดค์–ด์š” (I saw a person fall).

Exercise 3 โ€” Complete the Sentence

Fill in the blank with the correct expression.
A. __ ์นดํŽ˜์—์„œ ํ•ธ๋“œํฐ์„ ์žƒ์–ด๋ฒ„๋ ธ์–ด์š”.
<summary>Answer
์•„๊นŒ โ€” ์•„๊นŒ ์นดํŽ˜์—์„œ ํ•ธ๋“œํฐ์„ ์žƒ์–ด๋ฒ„๋ ธ์–ด์š”.
B. __ ํŽธ์˜์  ์•ž์—์„œ ๊ฐ€๋ฐฉ์ด ์—†์–ด์กŒ์–ด์š”.
<summary>Answer
๋ฐฉ๊ธˆ โ€” ๋ฐฉ๊ธˆ ํŽธ์˜์  ์•ž์—์„œ ๊ฐ€๋ฐฉ์ด ์—†์–ด์กŒ์–ด์š”.
C. __, ๊ฒฝ์ฐฐ์—๊ฒŒ ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ์—ฐ๋ฝํ•ด์š”?
<summary>Answer
์‹ ๊ณ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹ถ์–ด์š” โ€” ์‹ ๊ณ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹ถ์–ด์š”, ๊ฒฝ์ฐฐ์—๊ฒŒ ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ์—ฐ๋ฝํ•ด์š”?
D. ๊ธ‰ํ•ด์š”. __.
<summary>Answer
๋„์›€์ด ํ•„์š”ํ•ด์š” โ€” ๊ธ‰ํ•ด์š”. ๋„์›€์ด ํ•„์š”ํ•ด์š”.
E. ์ €๊ธฐ์š”, __. ๋นจ๋ฆฌ ์™€ ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”.
<summary>Answer
๋‹ค์นœ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์ด ์žˆ์–ด์š” โ€” ์ €๊ธฐ์š”, ๋‹ค์นœ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์ด ์žˆ์–ด์š”. ๋นจ๋ฆฌ ์™€ ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”.
F. ๋ถ„์‹ค๋ฌผ ์‹ ๊ณ ๋Š” __?
<summary>Answer
์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ํ•ด์•ผ ํ•ด์š”? โ€” ๋ถ„์‹ค๋ฌผ ์‹ ๊ณ ๋Š” ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ํ•ด์•ผ ํ•ด์š”?
G. ์‹ ๊ณ ์„œ ์ž‘์„ฑํ–ˆ์–ด์š”. __.
<summary>Answer
ํ™•์ธํ•ด ์ฃผ์„ธ์š” โ€” ์‹ ๊ณ ์„œ ์ž‘์„ฑํ–ˆ์–ด์š”. ํ™•์ธํ•ด ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”.
H. ์ด๊ฑด ์‹ฌ๊ฐํ•œ ์ƒํ™ฉ์ด์—์š”. __.
<summary>Answer
๊ฒฝ์ฐฐ์— ์‹ ๊ณ ํ•ด์•ผ ํ•ด์š” โ€” ์ด๊ฑด ์‹ฌ๊ฐํ•œ ์ƒํ™ฉ์ด์—์š”. ๊ฒฝ์ฐฐ์— ์‹ ๊ณ ํ•ด์•ผ ํ•ด์š”.
I. ๋‚˜์ค‘์„ ์œ„ํ•ด __.
<summary>Answer
์—ฐ๋ฝ์ฒ˜๋ฅผ ์•Œ๋ ค์ฃผ์„ธ์š” โ€” ๋‚˜์ค‘์„ ์œ„ํ•ด ์—ฐ๋ฝ์ฒ˜๋ฅผ ์•Œ๋ ค์ฃผ์„ธ์š”.
J. ์•„๊นŒ ์ง€ํ•˜์ฒ ์—์„œ __.
<summary>Answer
์ œ ๋ฌผ๊ฑด์ด ์—†์–ด์กŒ์–ด์š” โ€” ์•„๊นŒ ์ง€ํ•˜์ฒ ์—์„œ ์ œ ๋ฌผ๊ฑด์ด ์—†์–ด์กŒ์–ด์š”.
๐Ÿ“š
Sentence Starters
Starter
Use
์•„๊นŒ [์žฅ์†Œ]์—์„œ
Time + location
๋ฐฉ๊ธˆ [์žฅ์†Œ]์—์„œ
Immediate time + location
์‹ ๊ณ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹ถ์–ด์š”
File a report
๋„์›€์ด ํ•„์š”ํ•ด์š”
Urgent help
๋‹ค์นœ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์ด ์žˆ์–ด์š”
Medical emergency
์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ํ•ด์•ผ ํ•ด์š”?
Seek guidance
ํ™•์ธํ•ด ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”
Request verification
๊ฒฝ์ฐฐ์— ์‹ ๊ณ ํ•ด์•ผ ํ•ด์š”
Escalate to police
์—ฐ๋ฝ์ฒ˜๋ฅผ ์•Œ๋ ค์ฃผ์„ธ์š”
Get contact info
์ œ ๋ฌผ๊ฑด์ด ์—†์–ด์กŒ์–ด์š”
Report missing item
๐Ÿ’ก
Production Tip: Stay Calm, Stay Clear
In a real incident, the most useful thing you can do is speak clearly and slowly. Use short sentences: ์•„๊นŒ ์—ญ์—์„œ ์ง€๊ฐ‘์„ ์žƒ์–ด๋ฒ„๋ ธ์–ด์š”. ์‹ ๊ณ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹ถ์–ด์š”. ์–ด๋”” ๊ฐ€์•ผ ํ•ด์š”? Three sentences is enough to get you where you need to be. Practice these short, precise sentences until they come out automatically under pressure.

Exercise 4 โ€” Dialogue Completion

Complete each short dialogue with the right expression.
A. A: ๋ฌด์Šจ ์ผ์ด์—์š”? B: __ ์ง€ํ•˜์ฒ ์—์„œ ๊ฐ€๋ฐฉ์„ ์žƒ์–ด๋ฒ„๋ ธ์–ด์š”.
<summary>Answer
์•„๊นŒ โ€” ์•„๊นŒ ์ง€ํ•˜์ฒ ์—์„œ ๊ฐ€๋ฐฉ์„ ์žƒ์–ด๋ฒ„๋ ธ์–ด์š”.
B. A: ์–ธ์ œ์š”? B: __ โ€” ๋ฐฉ๊ธˆ ์ „์ด์—์š”.
<summary>Answer
๋ฐฉ๊ธˆ โ€” ๋ฐฉ๊ธˆ ์ „์ด์—์š”.
C. A: ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ๋„์™€๋“œ๋ฆด๊นŒ์š”? B: __.
<summary>Answer
์‹ ๊ณ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹ถ์–ด์š” โ€” ์‹ ๊ณ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹ถ์–ด์š”.
D. A: ๊ดœ์ฐฎ์œผ์„ธ์š”? B: ์•„๋‹ˆ์š”, __.
<summary>Answer
๋„์›€์ด ํ•„์š”ํ•ด์š” โ€” ์•„๋‹ˆ์š”, ๋„์›€์ด ํ•„์š”ํ•ด์š”.
E. A: ์™œ ๊ธ‰ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋ถ€๋ฅด์…จ์–ด์š”? B: __.
<summary>Answer
๋‹ค์นœ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์ด ์žˆ์–ด์š” โ€” ๋‹ค์นœ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์ด ์žˆ์–ด์š”.
F. A: ์‹ ๊ณ ๋Š” ์–ด๋””์„œ ํ•ด์š”? B: __.
<summary>Answer
์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ํ•ด์•ผ ํ•ด์š”? โ€” ์ €๋„ ์ž˜ ๋ชจ๋ฅด๊ฒ ์–ด์š”. ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ํ•ด์•ผ ํ•ด์š”?
G. A: ์‹ ๊ณ ์„œ ์ž‘์„ฑํ•˜์…จ์–ด์š”? B: ๋„ค. __.
<summary>Answer
ํ™•์ธํ•ด ์ฃผ์„ธ์š” โ€” ๋„ค. ํ™•์ธํ•ด ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”.
H. A: ์ด๊ฑด ์ €ํฌ๊ฐ€ ์ฒ˜๋ฆฌ ๋ชป ํ•ด์š”. B: ๊ทธ๋Ÿผ __.
<summary>Answer
๊ฒฝ์ฐฐ์— ์‹ ๊ณ ํ•ด์•ผ ํ•ด์š” โ€” ๊ทธ๋Ÿผ ๊ฒฝ์ฐฐ์— ์‹ ๊ณ ํ•ด์•ผ ํ•ด์š”.
I. A: ๋‚˜์ค‘์— ์—ฐ๋ฝ์ด ํ•„์š”ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์–ด์š”. B: ์•Œ๊ฒ ์–ด์š”. __.
<summary>Answer
์—ฐ๋ฝ์ฒ˜๋ฅผ ์•Œ๋ ค์ฃผ์„ธ์š” โ€” ์•Œ๊ฒ ์–ด์š”. ์—ฐ๋ฝ์ฒ˜๋ฅผ ์•Œ๋ ค์ฃผ์„ธ์š”.
J. A: ๋ญ˜ ์žƒ์–ด๋ฒ„๋ฆฌ์…จ์–ด์š”? B: __.
<summary>Answer
์ œ ๋ฌผ๊ฑด์ด ์—†์–ด์กŒ์–ด์š” โ€” ์ œ ์ง€๊ฐ‘์ด ์—†์–ด์กŒ์–ด์š”.
๐Ÿ“š
Useful Phrases
Expression
Role
์•„๊นŒ/๋ฐฉ๊ธˆ
Time marker
์‹ ๊ณ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹ถ์–ด์š”
File report
๋„์›€์ด ํ•„์š”ํ•ด์š”
Urgent help
๋‹ค์นœ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์ด ์žˆ์–ด์š”
Medical signal
์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ํ•ด์•ผ ํ•ด์š”?
Ask for guidance
ํ™•์ธํ•ด ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”
Request check
๊ฒฝ์ฐฐ์— ์‹ ๊ณ ํ•ด์•ผ ํ•ด์š”
Escalate to police
์—ฐ๋ฝ์ฒ˜๋ฅผ ์•Œ๋ ค์ฃผ์„ธ์š”
Get contact info
์ œ ๋ฌผ๊ฑด์ด ์—†์–ด์กŒ์–ด์š”
Missing item
๐Ÿ’ก
Conversation Tip: ์‹ ๊ณ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹ถ์–ด์š” Opens Doors
Saying ์‹ ๊ณ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹ถ์–ด์š” at any official location (station, mall, police box) immediately tells staff what you need. They will ask for details โ€” so be ready with ์•„๊นŒ/๋ฐฉ๊ธˆ + location + ์ด/๊ฐ€ ์—†์–ด์กŒ์–ด์š”. That three-part answer is all they need to get started.

Exercise 5 โ€” Free Speaking Practice

Practice reporting incidents in realistic Korean scenarios.
A. You lost your phone on the subway just now. Report it.
<summary>Answer
๋ฐฉ๊ธˆ ์ง€ํ•˜์ฒ ์—์„œ ํ•ธ๋“œํฐ์„ ์žƒ์–ด๋ฒ„๋ ธ์–ด์š”. ์‹ ๊ณ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹ถ์–ด์š”. ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ํ•ด์•ผ ํ•ด์š”?
B. Your bag disappeared from a coffee shop a little while ago.
<summary>Answer
์•„๊นŒ ์นดํŽ˜์—์„œ ๊ฐ€๋ฐฉ์ด ์—†์–ด์กŒ์–ด์š”. ๋„์›€์ด ํ•„์š”ํ•ด์š”.
C. You saw someone fall outside and they appear to be hurt.
<summary>Answer
๋ฐฉ๊ธˆ ๋ฐ–์—์„œ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์ด ๋„˜์–ด์ง€๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ๋ดค์–ด์š”. ๋‹ค์นœ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์ด ์žˆ์–ด์š”.
D. You're at a station and don't know how to file a lost item report.
<summary>Answer
๋ถ„์‹ค๋ฌผ ์‹ ๊ณ ๋ฅผ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹ถ์€๋ฐ ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ํ•ด์•ผ ํ•ด์š”?
E. Your wallet was in your bag but is now gone. Report clearly.
<summary>Answer
์•„๊นŒ ๊ฐ€๋ฐฉ ์•ˆ์— ์žˆ๋˜ ์ง€๊ฐ‘์ด ์—†์–ด์กŒ์–ด์š”. ์‹ ๊ณ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹ถ์–ด์š”.
F. You need to get the other person's contact information after an incident.
<summary>Answer
๋‚˜์ค‘์— ํ•„์š”ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์œผ๋‹ˆ๊นŒ ์—ฐ๋ฝ์ฒ˜๋ฅผ ์•Œ๋ ค์ฃผ์„ธ์š”.
G. You filed a report and want it checked.
<summary>Answer
์‹ ๊ณ ์„œ ์ž‘์„ฑํ–ˆ์–ด์š”. ํ•œ ๋ฒˆ ํ™•์ธํ•ด ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”.
H. The situation is serious and needs police involvement.
<summary>Answer
์ด๊ฑด ๊ฒฝ์ฐฐ์— ์‹ ๊ณ ํ•ด์•ผ ํ•  ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™์•„์š”. ์ง€๊ธˆ ๋ฐ”๋กœ ํ• ๊ฒŒ์š”.
I. Witness an accident and tell a bystander what happened.
<summary>Answer
๋ฐฉ๊ธˆ ์ฐจ ์‚ฌ๊ณ ๊ฐ€ ๋‚˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ๋ดค์–ด์š”. ๋„์›€์ด ํ•„์š”ํ•ด์š”.
J. Give a full 4-sentence incident report: time, place, what happened, what you need.
<summary>Answer
์•„๊นŒ 2ํ˜ธ์„  ์ง€ํ•˜์ฒ ์—์„œ ์ง€๊ฐ‘์„ ์žƒ์–ด๋ฒ„๋ ธ์–ด์š”. ๊ฒ€์€์ƒ‰ ์ง€๊ฐ‘์ด์—์š”. ์‹ ๊ณ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹ถ์–ด์š”. ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ํ•ด์•ผ ํ•ด์š”?
๐Ÿ“š
Sentence Starters
Starter
Use
์•„๊นŒ [์žฅ์†Œ]์—์„œ
Time + location
๋ฐฉ๊ธˆ [์žฅ์†Œ]์—์„œ
Just now
~์„/๋ฅผ ์žƒ์–ด๋ฒ„๋ ธ์–ด์š”
Lost item
~์ด/๊ฐ€ ์—†์–ด์กŒ์–ด์š”
Missing item
์‹ ๊ณ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹ถ์–ด์š”
Report request
๋„์›€์ด ํ•„์š”ํ•ด์š”
Help needed
๋‹ค์นœ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์ด ์žˆ์–ด์š”
Someone hurt
์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ํ•ด์•ผ ํ•ด์š”?
Seeking guidance
ํ™•์ธํ•ด ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”
Please verify
๊ฒฝ์ฐฐ์— ์‹ ๊ณ ํ•ด์•ผ ํ•ด์š”
Police involved
๐Ÿ’ก
Speaking Challenge: The 4-Sentence Report
Practice until this 4-sentence structure is automatic: (1) ์•„๊นŒ/๋ฐฉ๊ธˆ + [location] + ์—์„œ + [incident]. (2) [Description of what's missing or what happened]. (3) ์‹ ๊ณ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹ถ์–ด์š” / ๋„์›€์ด ํ•„์š”ํ•ด์š”. (4) ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ํ•ด์•ผ ํ•ด์š”? / ํ™•์ธํ•ด ์ฃผ์„ธ์š”. Run through three different scenarios (lost item, witnessed accident, missing belongings) until each one flows in under 15 seconds.
์‹ค์ œ ์ƒํ™ฉ์—์„œ ํ•œ๊ตญ์–ด๋กœ ์นจ์ฐฉํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋ณด๊ณ ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์–ด์š”. ์ž˜ ํ•˜์…จ์–ด์š”! โœจ
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